The plant, which will be located at the Port of Long Beach in California, will be “the world’s first commercial-scale 100 percent renewable power and hydrogen generation plant,” writes USA Today.

Toyota is expecting the plant to come online in about 2020.

The plant is expected to have the capability to provide enough energy to power 2,350 average homes and enough fuel to operate 1,500 hydrogen-powered vehicles daily.

The company is estimating the plant to be able to produce 2.35 MW of electricity and 1.2 tons of hydrogen each day.

The facility will also be equipped with one of the largest hydrogen fuelling stations in the world. Toyota’s North America group vice president for strategic planning, Doug Murtha, says that the company “understand[s] the tremendous potential to reduce emissions and improve society.”

Toyota is heavily investing in its hydrogen fuel cell technology. The cells are being used in the company’s Mirai sedans and the upcoming Project Portal semi truck.

Recently, Toyota has set a goal to cease production of traditional internal combustion engines by 2040 and reduce its vehicles’ carbon emissions by 90 percent by 2050. This plant will be an important proof-of-concept demonstration.

Toyota’s efforts could go a long way to speed along the shift toward cleaner vehicles. Elon Musk’s Tesla is already finding great success with their electric cars.

Couple that with the great strides being made in making clean energy more desirable than fossil fuels, and we have a promising recipe for success for consumers and the environment alike.

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